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Investment and Dynamic DEA

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Pierre Ouellette () (Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec (Montréal))
Li Yan () (Département des sciences administratives, Université du Québec (Outaouais) et LRSP)

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Abstract

A dynamic version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is developed in the present paper. Our model introduces investment in traditional DEA and imposes intertemporal cost minimization. Adding an intertemporal adjustment constraint into the cost minimization problem, we derive the relation between the DEA variables of the cost function and those of the primary production frontiers’ coefficients. The augmented DEA model can be solved using standard linear programming. This dynamic framework enables computing the production frontiers, measuring the productive efficiencies and evaluating the potential economies all in the presence of adjustment costs.

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Paper provided by Département des sciences administratives, UQO in its series RePAd Working Paper Series with number UQO-DSA-wp012006.

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Length: 27 pages
Date of creation: 12 Jan 2006
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Keywords: Adjustment cost; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Multiple outputs/inputs; Quasi-fixed inputs.;

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D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Capital and Total Factor Productivity; Capacity
L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production

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